Azure DevOps Mastery Comprehensive Fundamentals Training Unleashed for 2025!

What you'll learn

Master the Art of Managing Projects with Microsoft Azure DevOps

Master Insights Through Dashboarding and Queries

Learn how to Integrate Microsoft Excel with Azure DevOps

We'll take a Deep Dive into Azure Test Plans

Take a Deep Dive into Continuous Integration and Delivery at the Beginner level

Learn how to use AI, Timesheets and Microsoft Teams with Azure DevOps

A section dedicated to implementing Scaled Agile in Azure DevOps

And much more!

Requirements

No programming experience needed. You will learn everything you need to know!

Description

Unlock your potential as an Azure DevOps (ADO) expert with this comprehensive course, tailored to support professionals at from entry level to intermediate—in mastering ADO tools and techniques that drive efficient project delivery. The curriculum emphasizes essential skills to optimize workflows, enhance team collaboration, and elevate project delivery outcomes.This course provides practical, hands-on experience with ADO, covering critical functionalities such as Work Item Management, leveraging AI for assisting and automating work item creation, utilizing Azure Test Plans, Azure Boards, Dashboards, and implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Additionally, it explores advanced concepts like Scaled Agile Framework setup and Timesheet management within ADO, equipping you with the expertise to streamline processes, foster collaboration, and deliver projects on time and within scope.Beyond business and technical proficiency, the course also develops your project management acumen, enabling you to thrive in complex project environments. By mastering best practices and effective project management strategies with ADO, you will be better prepared to achieve accelerated delivery outcomes. Upon completion, you will earn 11 PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs), further reinforcing your ability to lead successful projects and create meaningful impact in your role. Please note that if you choose to pursue the Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Certification, this course covers up to 20% of the material included on the exam.

Overview

Section 1: Azure DevOps Unleashed - The Introduction

Lecture 1 Why Learn Azure DevOps!

Lecture 2 Meet Your Instructor with an Overview of the Course

Lecture 3 A Brief History of Microsoft Azure DevOps

Lecture 4 Creating a Free Microsoft Azure Account

Lecture 5 Review the ADO Organization Settings

Lecture 6 Review the Project Settings

Lecture 7 Overview of ADO User Access Levels

Lecture 8 Understanding ADO Permission Groups

Lecture 9 Setting up Your ADO Profile Preferences

Lecture 10 The Hierarchical Process Templates

Section 2: Let's start by creating some of the basic ADO Work Items

Lecture 11 Creating our first Work Item together-The Epic

Lecture 12 Review the Fields and Sections within the Epic Work Item we just created.

Lecture 13 Now Let's Create a Feature Work Item together

Lecture 14 The Anatomy of a User Story and how to Create one in ADO

Lecture 15 Now let's Create a Task Work Item

Lecture 16 Time to Create a Test Case

Lecture 17 Review Kanban then Create a Sprint

Section 3: Customizing the Project Process, Work Items, and Backlog for Standardization

Lecture 18 Benefits of Customizing Projects in ADO

Lecture 19 Customizing the ADO Project Process

Lecture 20 Adding Values to a Work Item Pick List

Lecture 21 Customizing the Azure Board States

Lecture 22 Adding New Fields to a Work Item

Lecture 23 Creating a Work Item Rule

Lecture 24 Adding a New Page to a Custom Work Item

Lecture 25 Creating a Custom New Work Item

Lecture 26 Creating Tags with Color

Lecture 27 Creating a Project Wiki

Lecture 28 Lets Copy and Clone a Work Item

Lecture 29 Creating Templates to Standardize Process

Lecture 30 More on Customizing Azure Boards

Section 4: Azure DevOps Query Basics

Lecture 31 ADO Queries Part 1 (An Introduction)

Lecture 32 ADO Queries Part 2 (Lets Create a Flat Query).mp4

Lecture 33 ADO Queries Part 3 (Flat Queries continued and Linked Queries)

Lecture 34 ADO Queries Part 4 (The Tree Query).mp4

Lecture 35 ADO Queries Part 5 (Charts, Report Formatting, Bulk Editing)

Section 5: Building a Project from the Ground Up!

Lecture 36 Creating a Project together

Lecture 37 Let's Install our First Extension called "Visualize"

Lecture 38 Estimating the Work in our Project

Lecture 39 Let's set up our Backlog to view the Estimates

Lecture 40 Setting Sprint dates and adding work to our Sprints

Lecture 41 Some final words on assigning work across Sprints

Lecture 42 How to Configure the Sprint Resource Capacity Model

Lecture 43 The Importance of Standardizing the Backlog

Lecture 44 Creating a Strategic Level Work Item in the Backlog

Lecture 45 Some final Tips on Customizing the Backlog

Lecture 46 Let's Setup a Delivery Plan with Dependency Tracking

Lecture 47 Lets check out ADO Analytic Views

Section 6: A Deep Dive on Creating ADO Dashboards and supporting Queries

Lecture 48 An Introduction to ADO Dashboards

Lecture 49 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 1

Lecture 50 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 2

Lecture 51 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 3

Lecture 52 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 4

Lecture 53 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 5

Lecture 54 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 6

Lecture 55 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 7

Lecture 56 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 8

Lecture 57 Creating Dashboard Queries Part 9

Lecture 58 Exporting and Importing ADO Work items

Section 7: A Deep Dive into ADO Test Plans (Test Management) Part 1

Lecture 59 An Introduction to Testing

Lecture 60 ADO Test Plans Part 1

Lecture 61 ADO Test Plans Part 2

Lecture 62 ADO Test Plans Part 3

Lecture 63 ADO Test Plans Part 4

Lecture 64 Exploratory Testing with the Test and Feedback Browser Extension Part 5

Lecture 65 Creating Test Case Shared Steps

Lecture 66 Creating Test Case Parameters

Section 8: Advanced Techniques with Azure Test Plans (Part 2)

Lecture 67 Installing a Free Trial to Azure Test Plans

Lecture 68 Navigating Azure Test Plans (Parameterization)

Lecture 69 Navigating Azure Test Plans (Configurations)

Lecture 70 Navigating Azure Test Plans (Static Test Suites)

Lecture 71 Navigating Azure Test Plans (Requirements Based Test Suites)

Lecture 72 Navigating Azure Test Plans (Query Based Test Suites)

Lecture 73 More on Azure Test Plans

Lecture 74 Azure Test Plans (Bulk Export and Import)

Lecture 75 Creating a Test Status Dashboard Part 1

Lecture 76 Creating a Test Status Dashboard Part 2

Lecture 77 Final Words on Azure Test Plans

Section 9: A Beginner Level Deep Dive into Continuous Integration and Delivery

Lecture 78 Getting Started with Azure DevOps CI and CD

Lecture 79 Understanding Git as a Distributed Code Management System

Lecture 80 Let's Create a New ADO Repo with Git

Lecture 81 Let's Create a Branch in ADO

Lecture 82 Time to Create a Pull-Request

Lecture 83 How to install the Microsoft IDE (Integrated Development Environment)

Lecture 84 Create a Web Project and Git Repo within the IDE

Lecture 85 Understand and Practice Cloning and Forking a Repo

Lecture 86 Building an ADO Pipeline with a Web Application

Lecture 87 Creating our first Build Pipeline (Introduction to the YAML File)

Lecture 88 Publishing our Web App Build Artifact (More on the YAML File)

Lecture 89 Setting up the Release Pipeline with an Azure WebApp Service

Lecture 90 Automating our Pipeline End-to-End

Lecture 91 Creating a Multi-Stage Release Pipeline

Lecture 92 Now we'll Create a Parallel Release Pipeline and setup a Release Approval

Lecture 93 Creating Pipeline Deployment Conditions (Gates)

Lecture 94 Creating a Simple Build and Release History Dashboard

Lecture 95 A Review of the ADO Service called Artifacts

Lecture 96 Some Final Words on Continuous Integration and Delivery

Section 10: Learn about ADO Integrations You can setup in Your ADO instance

Lecture 97 Artificial Intelligence (Part 1) Integrating AI to Automate Work Item Creation

Lecture 98 AI (Part 2) Configuring the AI Work Item Assistant

Lecture 99 GitHub Part 1 with ADO Integration

Lecture 100 GitHub Part 2 with ADO Integration

Lecture 101 GitHub Part 3 with ADO Integration

Lecture 102 Microsoft Teams (Part 1) Integrating with ADO Azure Boards

Lecture 103 Microsoft Teams (Part 2) Integrating with ADO Azure Boards

Lecture 104 MS Excel (Part 1) Integration with ADO

Lecture 105 MS Excel (Part 2) Integration with ADO

Section 11: Learn how to Setup Scaled Agile Releases in ADO

Lecture 106 Implementing Scaled Agile in ADO (Part 1)

Lecture 107 Implementing Scaled Agile in ADO (Part 2)

Lecture 108 Implementing Scaled Agile in ADO (Part 3)

Lecture 109 Implementing Scaled Agile in ADO (Part 4)

Lecture 110 Implementing Scaled Agile in ADO (Part 5)

Section 12: Agile, Scrum, and Beyond: Methods in Azure DevOps

Lecture 111 PMI Project Management Model setup in ADO

Lecture 112 The Agile Manifesto in relation to ADO

Lecture 113 The Stages of Team Formation using ADO

Lecture 114 How the Scrum Ceremonies Works

Lecture 115 Playing Planning Poker in ADO to Estimate Work

Lecture 116 The Retrospective Extension for Continuous Improvement

Lecture 117 Let's review what is the DOD (Definition of Done) using an Extension

Lecture 118 How to use a Timesheet Management Extension in ADO Part 1

Lecture 119 How to use a Timesheet Management Extension in ADO Part 2

Lecture 120 Bonus Section

This course is designed for project managers, aspiring project managers, and IT professionals who want to master the art of managing projects using Azure DevOps. Whether you're working in software development, IT operations, or any other industry that utilizes project management tools, this course will equip you with the essential skills to lead projects from initiation to successful delivery.